Saturday, December 20, 2008

I'm still awake and it's nearly 6am. I figured it is a

good time to tell you of how I stood outside
Baruch while Hillary Spoke with a
Obama/Clinton sign. I was walking home
and saw a bunch of News trucks.
I inquired at Baruch College which
was teeming with Secret Service agents.
Hillary Clinton was going to speak.
After seeing it was futile trying to get inside I went home. While home I decided it was silly to hear the speech at home when she was only blocks away. I did not want to go and stand there for no reason. I made a big sign. My sign said: OBAMA
-------------
CLINTON
Unite for a change
08
It was rather large and colorful.

I had my photo taken by press, I was interviewed by a few different international media outlets, asked to stand in backround while reporters reported to Danish, Spanish, Italian, French news live. I was asked to be in a documentaryabout Millenial Generation and interviewed for Japanese radio. Lots of random people took my photo, and I think secret Service took my photo as well. It was successful that I got to be seen by Hill, Bill and Chelsea who saw my sign. That was the primary point. I wanted to reach out.

I went there not to see Hilary but to be seen by her. On my sign it said "Unite for a Change 08"
The point is not me, nor the sign but that
I demostrated a message and that it was so
simple to have an effect. I was threatened by passerbys, yelled at, cheered, I got the thumbs
up by many and my photo taken by many
people to end up where I do not know. People engaged me on the street and it was more often than not a positive exchange. It felt truly democratic to talk to people on the streets. I even heard if from Mccain supporters. We all can make a sign and go out. You can write anything you want. I made it on a normal computer printer. I printed the letters as big as possible.

Me waiting for hilary with my sign

SO make your own sign and go out and stand for something (literally)!!!

It felt good!

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